Re: [Evolution] Evolution keeps asking for my passwords

[Steven Taylor <steven taylor56 sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 23:26 +0100, Ángel wrote:
> On 2021-03-24 at 15:01 -0700, Steven Taylor wrote:
> > Hi, I have had evolution 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 running for about a week
> > now
> > on my Kubuntu 20.04 system and it has been fine. Today, when I
> > booted
> > the system, it said an application wanted access to my keyring so I
> > entered my password for that and started Evolution. Now every time
> > Evolution checks my mail, it asks for my email passwords, I put
> > them
> > in, sometimes leaveing the "Store password in the keyring" box
> > checked, sometimes with the box cleared. Everytime, it goes ahead
> > and
> > retrievesmy mail okay, but the next time, it asks for the password
> > again. It has never done this before now and I haven't made any
> > changes. I am about ready to go back to Opera as my mail client.
>
> evolution isn't able to communicate with your keyring. Thus it is
> asking the password everytime (and is unable to save it, and thus it
> gets asked again next time). If there really wasn't any change, I
> would
> reboot and see if it gets picked properly, as it may be the quickest
> solution. Otherwise, you can start by shutting doen all evolution
> processes (eolution --force-shutdown), checking the keyring contenst
> (open seahorse)...
>
> Best regards
This morning on reboot, the keyring didn't ask for a password and
evolution is working without asking for passwords. Something wierd was
going on but, as you said, rebooting was the quickest solution.
Steve

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